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- Title
INSTITUTION BUILDING THEORY AS A DIAGNOSTIC FRAMEWORK FOR ORGANIZATION DEVELOPMENT CONSULTATION: THE CASE OF UNIVERSITY POPULATION PROGRAMS.
- Authors
Lynton, Rolf P.; Thomas, John M.
- Abstract
The article focuses on an organization development consultation that applies a specific organization-environment diagnostic framework and institution building theory. Institution building theory emphasizes the Interaction of a diverse set of environmental linkages with organizational doctrine or purpose. Institutionalization means that the organization and its innovations are accepted and supported by the external environment. The environment has accommodated to its innovations more than the organization has accommodated to the original environment. One application of institution - building theory involved consultation with a network of twenty prominent universities in Africa, Asia, and Latin America which, beginning in the late 1960s, began to develop field-oriented programs of population studies. The nature of the project suggests another important kind of linkage, that is interaction and exchange with like institutions for further support. This support linkage can provide, at the institutional level, what colleagueship does at the individual level--an exchange of information and the development of common strategies and agreements to share resources.
- Subjects
INSTITUTION building; ORGANIZATIONAL change; SOCIAL change; THEORY; ORGANIZATIONAL behavior; BUSINESS planning
- Publication
Southern Review of Public Administration, 1980, Vol 4, Issue 3, p303
- ISSN
0147-8168
- Publication type
Article